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Social Determinants of Health

The Importance of Integrated Care Models that Address Medical, Behavioral, and Social Health Needs

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Health care delivery drives only 20 percent of health outcomes, with behavioral and social determinants — including income, living environment, employment status, and access to transportation and healthy food — playing a much bigger role in overall health. There is growing recognition among policymakers that integrating health care with social supports and services is critical to improving broad population health, advancing health equity, and reducing health care spending.

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    Making Integration Work: Key Elements for Effective Partnerships between Physical and Behavioral Health Organizations in Medicaid February 2020
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    Alternative Staffing Models to Improve Care for Complex Patients in their Homes and Other Settings: Early Findings from the Transforming Complex Care Initiative March 2019

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February 2020 From Camden to Memphis: Recent Complex Care Randomized Controlled Trials Present a Call to Action

In early 2020, the field of complex care has seen at least two new robust additions to the evidence base. First, the field was immersed in pondering the implications of the recent New England Journal of Medicine publication of the Camden Coalition’s randomized controlled trial (RCT) results — results which, at a high level, revealed… Read more »

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